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You are inferring solutions from one problem and trying to apply them as rules to solve another problem which is not the same. Damian Eadie's problem: I have 2500 letters rounds of Countdown to produce a year for TV and 200 contestant to keep happy. How can I succinctly write a set of rules to keep ...

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One thing I there's consensus on is how shit red delicious are. I've never known anybody deliberately buy one to eat from the shop. The only time you ever see them eaten is in offices / hotels etc where there is free fruit and everything else has been taken.

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I'm talking about the fruit. One a day keeps the doctor away, but which would you like to have the most and which would you want to avoid?

God tier:
Pink Lady

Good tier:
Jazz
Braeburn
Honey Crisp

Ok tier:
Gala

Shit tier:
Golden Delicious
Red delicious
Granny smith

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I've not played it online, but I reckon it must lose a big dimension of the game. For me the personal interaction, persuasion and deception (not talking about breaking rules, but about throwing attention away from yourself) are all good parts of the game.

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Loving the level of analysis in this thread. I have a copy of Catan and would love to get more use out of it. Sounds like Dan is already the expert. One additional piece of advice I would add is about timing when you pay your dev cards. With monopoly ideally you time it just after somebody jas had a...

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Thanks for running Tony, and congrats to Ronan on a solid victory

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Just wondering if there are any pirates out there or someone managed to copy the source code onto another website :? If anyone knows then please send me a link to it :D Many thanks and much appreciated !! Even if somebody did manage to reverse engineer the front end website you'd have no hope of th...

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If trying to share or promote this app, what is the best direct link to use. Here is the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.jackhurst.countdown.production At some point I'll make a landing page for the app and it should make the whole process of sharing/ promoting the app loo...

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So it will be interesting to see whether Countdown will reject this, and now use just one dictionary for adjudication in the studio and in the gallery. I emailed them to ask, and the response was that Oxford always has and always will be the source of truth for word adjudication. Lexico has been a ...

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It might be possible that dictionary.com introduce a feature to filter based on "English" or they might just do a good job of specifying in the definitions of something is English or not.

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:11 pm I am at a loss as to how anyone can have a strong opinion on this.

+1

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Train strikes same day as co Brum
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62325025

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Question: In the Daily Duel thing, how come the three people tied in first place are marked as being 1st 2nd and 3rd? Is the time taken to solve shit taken into consideration to split ties? This is now fixed. Players on tied scores are given an equal ranking on all leaderboards. Scores on all score...

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Question: In the Daily Duel thing, how come the three people tied in first place are marked as being 1st 2nd and 3rd? Is the time taken to solve shit taken into consideration to split ties? Ties should be displayed as equal. It's an oversize from me that the app doesn't do this now. I'll fix it for...

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I'd be interested to know the split between people who play at co events by looking at the tiles vs those who wrote the selection down and play from their handwriting?

Personally I find looking at the tiles incredibly difficult so I always write down letters and numbers.

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Are we really going to entertain the idea that it could be anybody other than Conor? Longevity: He's been at the top of the game for 17 years, winning a series of Countdown in 2005, and consistently being one of the strongest players at any point in time all the way to now in 2022. He won Colin firs...

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Interested to see how this goes! Perhaps a good way for C4 to try out a few candidates for the full time slot

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Just a note on the observations that some tables using tech will have an unfair advantage over those using cards due to 'nicer' selections: most Lincoln style events have several different decks being used across the tables and often some tables have noticeably nicer selections than others so that'...

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Well it's great that you are such an enthusiast of the app, and also cool that you are wanting to try and use it for the event. Keep in mind that the app is currently intended for single player use so doesn't really support a "pass n play" style right now. Graeme raises some good points. S...

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Polite suggestion for future updates: invalid answers should not be spelled out on the letters board. Users may not necessarily notice their word is not in the dictionary as indicated by the script, especially if their eyesight/attention to detail is compromised. Invalid words crossd out in the gam...

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Anybody had any good games recently? Pretty chuffed to have just got an 8 Darren max game

Check out my score of 158 on the Countdown Android app
http://jackhurst.co.uk/countdowngame?QxXOJo

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:51 pm yeah the only reason to ask a contestant to spell a conundrum would be if there's confusion about whether they've said the right word.

Agreed. Ideally the setter picks something that would be very difficult to pronounce ambiguously.

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Mine are also still in the original packaging. So strange that they give the runner up £1k cash which is clearly better to have.

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You are running a co event, and observe the following Host reveals crucial conundrum: HRRAAEIOD C1 "Diarrhoea" (pronounced correctly) C2 "Spell it" C1 "D I A H R R O E A" H "I'm afraid that's not the right spelling" C2 "Diarrhoea D I A R R H O E A" ...

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You are running a co event, and observe the following Host reveals crucial conundrum: HRRAAEIOD C1 "Diarrhoea" (pronounced correctly) C2 "Spell it" C1 "D I A H R R O E A" H "I'm afraid that's not the right spelling" C2 "Diarrhoea D I A R R H O E A" H...

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Both contestants declare the same result on a numbers game. The first contestant presents, and then the second contestant is asked to go. They hesitate repeatedly before starting their workings, almost getting timed out by the host. It is clear they have not written anything down or indeed found th...

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What % of rounds will produce maxes of varying lengths? In an attempt to answer a very basic version of my recent question, I looked at just the % max length over the last 100 televised letters rounds, and this is what it came up with:- Max of 4 letters (or fewer) = 0% Max of 5 letters = 1% Max of ...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:02 pm Jack's android app.

It's more of a game than a tool at the moment. Maybe after a couple more features become public Eoin will consider it a worthy addition

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By that measure, the "least likely" nine ever to have been spotted on Countdown was MYOGLOBIN by Michael Calder in the series 42 final. I don't have a way to generate all possible nines. Made all the more impressive by the much more obvious BOOMINGLY (which is invalid) not being declared.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:27 pm I bet Carol Vorderman is the next presenter. Check her Twitter feed.

I reckon it's bait. She's got some other project on the go, but she (or her pr team) know if she's sufficiently vague it will get more hype because half the readers will assume it's CD

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Who are the contestants?

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:50 am
I would make it 10 points for an exact solution, 7 points for one away, and 5 points for any further away. Keep that only the closer solution scores.

Also, get rid of the requirement to be within 10...

Yes this is good.

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I wouldn't make this change now. But if the show was starting up from scratch I would change the numbers scoring.

10pts - 1pt per 1 away from target
Also if it's impossible to be within 10, you get 5 pts for being closer than your opponent anyway.

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As a suggestion you could do fixed players picking as P1 / P2 each game, and rotate those players to cover the top 8 as much as possible. This would mean 6 of the top 8 players get to play a game as player 1 once and as player 2 once. The other 2 players get to play 1 game as player 1/2. The player...

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As a suggestion you could do fixed players picking as P1 / P2 each game, and rotate those players to cover the top 8 as much as possible. This would mean 6 of the top 8 players get to play a game as player 1 once and as player 2 once. The other 2 players get to play 1 game as player 1/2. The players...

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:38 pm Just a quick comment to say that today's challenge: brilliant.

Thanks! I do take requests

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Had a thought about letters rounds the other day - it might be more realistic (note, not necessarily better!) if the letters didn't disappear when you used them - at the moment it's impossible to declare a word with 2 Rs when you've actually got two Ts and two Ss! Yes it's impossible to declare a w...

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Today the daily challenge feature is going to be released, so keep your eyes peeled for an update becoming available in the play store! Each day everybody plays the same challenge, and after you complete the challenge there is a leaderboard where you can view how many points and what words everybod...

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Today the daily challenge feature is going to be released, so keep your eyes peeled for an update becoming available in the play store! Each day everybody plays the same challenge, and after you complete the challenge there is a leaderboard where you can view how many points and what words everybody...

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Good luck Marc!

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It would be great to get ELO ratings for players out of this.

Game order is important for this, and I am not sure if the data has this?

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True, but a price tag of £25 will always be less appealing than £15. If memory serves, the first time I charged for entry (2007) it was about £8 for the day. Yes, there's inflation, yes, there are additional costs, but people still look at the entry fee and factor that into their decision over whet...

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Nice puzzle

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 10:02 am I will throw some names into The mix.
Adil Ray or Craig Charles.
Dream ticket would be Clive Myrie

Are there enough Es in the pack for Craig Charles?

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What about:
Rachel Moves to presenter role
Anne-Marie comes back as arithmetician.

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Ads are annoying though! Can we have the option to pay a couple of quid to get rid of them please? It should be a maximum of one ad per game? Whilst I get that this is annoying, it's still way less often most other apps with ads would show them? But yes I totally get your point. It's a bit rubbish ...

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A couple of milestones: The 10000th high score was submitted to the leaderboard about 3 weeks ago. We're at 895000 rounds of countdown played on the app, so I imagine we'll hit the big old 1 million in about a fortnight! I've also been working hard on the daily challenge feature in my spare time. I ...

JackHurst · Re: CO:LON - 9 April 2022 Thanks! Found it https://greem.co.uk/conprint/

Thanks! Found it
https://greem.co.uk/conprint/

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You are going to think I am bonkers for wanting to know this level of detail. What font will you use for the conundrum printouts?

Sounds mad, but i was so not used to the font used at Co:Lin that i wish I gave myself a bit of time to practise with it...

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Looks amazing Paul. Nice work! Great to see a few people making the trip across from England for this!

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I'm also not sure that anyone wants to play a lot more. 6 games is enough! Hosting can be a hassle though. Honestly for me I'd prefer 7 (or even 8) over 6 at a Bristol style event. Often with these things you end up spending a lot of money and time getting to the events, and I want to make sure I g...

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But Bristol-style offers advantages for more serious competition: ... The biggest 'serious' drawback is the lack of tactical element that comes with choosing selections Another drawback of some Bristol style events is when the format has players sorted into "divisions" half way through th...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:44 pm And so Nadal beats him to 21.

I was very pleased that this happened

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I'll be raffling away a small prize at the event on Saturday to a randomly selected player at the event who has left a review for my app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... production

If you want to have a chance of winning the prize remember to leave a review!

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Check out my score of 127 on the Countdown Android app
http://jackhurst.co.uk/countdowngame?QXGzGB

Happy times with a 7 Darren max game here

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Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:42 pm I haven't had much practice with the ODO dictionary yet; I reckon someone with a bit more experience would have smashed this game - three 9s I haven't heard of but with common letters:
http://jackhurst.co.uk/countdowngame?QX2Og4

Wow that's a monster max. Good picking

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Max Benkel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:04 pm What's the reason for the drinking glasses to be taken away from contestants? covid reasons?

Yes. Everybody has a bottle of water stashed underneath the desk now.

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Fantastic app. Everything comes to those who wait. I think I asked about someone creating an app when smart phones were in their infancy. I think if you provided a pro version you could make a tidy sum Thanks! The plan is to eventually add extra functionality for subscribers and see how that goes. ...

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Thanks for all the positive feedback regarding the new Countdown Android App. You can now update to the latest version for a new feature! When you submit a game to the leaderboard, you can now generate a link to share which will open that game in the app (provided they are also on the latest version...

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